Concept:

Modern society relies on an effective distribution system. The US Commerce Department reports that "Spending in the U.S. logistics and transportation industry totaled $1.33 trillion in 2012, and represented 8.5 percent of annual gross domestic product (GDP)." Furthermore, the EPA reports that "packaging constitutes as much as one-third of the non-industrial solid waste stream." This makes packaging an important topic, from both an economic and an environmental viewpoint.

• Find a way to protect a single Pringle chip sent through the mail.
• Work with a partner OR by yourself.
• Make your container economically viable and environmentally responsible.
• Document your process of design, engineering, and manufacture according to educationally appropriate standards.
• Assess your success and compare it to other projects completed at Upper Merion Area High School.

Contest:

• In addition to the grade you receive, we will measure your project in class, calculate its score, and compare your results with other projects.
• These measurements will NOT reveal your grade for the project, and it is possible to win the Contest without getting a good grade, and it is possible to earn a good grade even if your Pringle arrives damaged.
• The contest will make one judgement and two measurements in order to assign a score. The equation to calculate your score will be: Score = (Intact-ness)/(Mass*Volume)
• "Intactness" is judged according to the chart below:

Score Estimator (Fixed to handle decimal points)

Intactness	Description	Score
Perfectly Intact	Like it just left the factory	100 Million Points
Slightly Damaged	Cracked, but still in one piece	50 Million Points
Chipped Chip	Broken along the edges, but less than 5 pieces	10 Million Points
Split Chip	The chip is broken into two fairly equal pieces	10 Million Points
Significantly Damaged	Chipped and/or cracked into less than 20 pieces	5 Million Points
Pringle Dust	Too many pieces to count (more than 20)	1 Million Points

Deadlines:

Check Schoology for your deadlines!

Grades:

Check Schoology for your grading standards!

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Contest Results

Click here for a copy of this year's results spreadsheet that you can sort, filter, average to study "industry standards"!